Today EA announced Create, a Wii exclusive game centered around, you guessed it, creation; the response from commenters was almost universally negative. "Little retarded planet" or "This looks like shit" are some of the more expressive comments. Am I championing this game as the Wii's killer app? No. What I am doing is defending it's right to exist as a game unlike the majority of commenters.

The commonality between Little Big Planet and Create are centered around creating your own levels. From what we are shown in the trailer, Create is a very Rube Goldberg esque design philosophy, allowing players to solve puzzles by imagining up their own ideas. What it is not is a platformer. LBP is a platformer at heart, creating your own levels to platform through. Create appears to be simply a puzzle game.

So yes these games may share a similarity, however they are hardly the same game. My real problem is people taking offense to this. Firstly, Create is a Wii game, LBP is a PS3 game, hardly the same system,. My largest problem however is that these commentors seem to think that only LBP is allowed to have creating tools, that it was the first game to do this and no game after it may include these tools. Sorry, but level creation is nothing new.

Do these all look just a slight bit more similar than Create does to LBP? Cracked.com posted this comparison during E3, yet no one is posting on Killzone, MoH, or MW2 pages calling the games "retarded" or copies of each other. The gameplay, graphics, objectives and systems they are available on are all the same (all are available for PS3, Killzone is PS3 exclusive). They are for all intensive purposes the same game when taken at a glance.

My question is why are people hating on Create for having a similar idea when games like first person shooters are direct clones of each other? Is is simply that many people like LBP and Create is an unknown quantity? Is is that people are just hating on the Wii? Do they feel that a game being in one way similar to one they enjoy devalues that which they like? Or, do they just have a need to have their opinion recognized? Whatever the reason, I think that people aren't giving this game a fair chance.

I am not making any judgments one way or the other on Create; what I am doing is arguing for it's right to exist along side LBP. I myself am unlikely to buy it, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be made. This is the same argument hardcore gamers have against Microsoft Kinect. Sometimes things just aren't designed with them in mind, but they can't stand that. This game being made will not impact LBP 2, it does nothing to harm your beloved PS3, it is not a a direct clone of the game you love. What it is, is yet to be fully seen, and so before we start hating on a game, let's all just wait a little while, let things play out, and look into our own collection of games and realize that many of them are in some way, copies of one another.